Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Opaque dark purple, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad slightly uneven horizontal rim-disk; short cylindrical neck; narrow rounded shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body with upward taper; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with tails, applied over trail decoration.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another thicker yellow trail applied to neck; a fine turquoise blue trail also applied at top of body; both wound down in a spiral, tooled into a pattern in part resembling a zigzag, in part a feather, ending with a thick turquoise blue trail around the bottom.
Intact; dulling, pitting, and weathering with areas of yellow-brown encrustation.
Broad slightly uneven horizontal rim-disk; short cylindrical neck; narrow rounded shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body with upward taper; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with tails, applied over trail decoration.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another thicker yellow trail applied to neck; a fine turquoise blue trail also applied at top of body; both wound down in a spiral, tooled into a pattern in part resembling a zigzag, in part a feather, ending with a thick turquoise blue trail around the bottom.
Intact; dulling, pitting, and weathering with areas of yellow-brown encrustation.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
- Period: Classical
- Date: 5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
- Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group I
- Dimensions: 4 9/16 × 1 3/8 in. (11.5 × 3.4 cm)
Diam. of rim: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.787
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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